Object Notes

This table is the prototype for one commissioned in 1993 by Deedie and Rusty Rose for their Dallas house.

In 1982, the American architect Richard Meier was commissioned by Knoll International to design a group of seat furniture and tables. This group included a lounge, side chair, two stools, and two tables.

The Panton chair is an S-shaped, molded plastic continuous form created by Danish designer Verner Panton in the 1960s. The world's first single-material and single-form chair, it is considered to be one of the masterpieces of Danish design.

Cast and fabricated from 18-karat gold, the Rain Forest pin harmoniously combines Dozier's interest in the natural world with the artistic traditions of other cultures, inspired by her many travels. The asymmetrical form features technically difficult metalworking techniques, including delicate granulation on an undulating and curved body.

Following its emergence in Italy in the early 16th century, the Mannerist style travelled to France through a group of Italian artists employed by King Francis I (1494-1547) to decorate his palace at Fontainebleau.

At the center of this sweeping panorama of fields, mountains, coast and sea, Saint Jerome has thrown off his cardinal’s red hat and cloak and kneels, praying to a crucifix propped up in front of him.

On the edge of a grand formal garden, a man presents an elegant woman with the rose he has just gathered from a bush. They are dressed in expensive black fabrics, the woman pulling up her overgown to reveal her precious crimson skirt underneath.

Christ’s lifeless body has just come off the cross and is being gently lowered into a sarcophagus by two angels. Juan de Juanes was one of the leading artists in 16th century Valencia and is thought to have studied in Italy.

The leading landscape artist in France during the final decades of the 18th century, Hubert Robert was a painter whose activity straddled the great divide represented by the French Revolution.